[And then, like some childish, triumphant tale, he's gone. Dissipated into the hiss of white snow as it tumbles through the air in sharp wind, stinging her cheeks with vivid clarity-- as real as the island in her dreams, all hewn stone adrift in a deep, sapphire sea. If she wants, she can snap the button at her side; bathe in the comfort of a light that doesn't belong to her.
Hours it's taken, getting this far, and the more he presses, the more she bites back.
Reality slaps him like ice water and the recoil from rejection finds him as he sucks in too much air for the filter of his mask to keep pace, turning his inhale into a beastly, barely human crackle. Starkiller beneath his feet, the hiss of cool air snaking through ventilation shafts, the dull, vapid thoughts of the guard stationed just outside that locked door - he finds his footing within seconds - lunges forward like someone struck, turning momentum back on his enemy, only this time it isn't on her preferred terms: it's his gloved fingers at her jaw, clamped down fiercely enough to bruise, snapping her head back into the restraints to drag her from comfort without control.] Enough!!
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Hours it's taken, getting this far, and the more he presses, the more she bites back.
Reality slaps him like ice water and the recoil from rejection finds him as he sucks in too much air for the filter of his mask to keep pace, turning his inhale into a beastly, barely human crackle. Starkiller beneath his feet, the hiss of cool air snaking through ventilation shafts, the dull, vapid thoughts of the guard stationed just outside that locked door - he finds his footing within seconds - lunges forward like someone struck, turning momentum back on his enemy, only this time it isn't on her preferred terms: it's his gloved fingers at her jaw, clamped down fiercely enough to bruise, snapping her head back into the restraints to drag her from comfort without control.] Enough!!